Electric Transportation Will Provide Numerous Benefits

As pointed out in this article, the presence of electric vehicles plugged into our grid will one day provide a great number of different benefits, largely in terms of “ancillary services,” but also in terms of absorbing off-peak power, and, perhaps providing some power to the grid in times of peak load.  In addition, grid operators will be able to charge EVs at the precise times during the day that enable them to integrate the maximum amount of renewables.

When will all this happen?  It’s hard to say, because so many factors are moving at the same time: the smart grid/Internet of Things, the EV adoption curve, the development of different flavors of renewables, the build-out of our power transmission lines, the availability of other sorts of storage, etc.